General relativity with nonzero cosmological constant Λ as a gauge theory

Authors

  • Marta Dudek Institute of Mathematics, University of Szczecin, Poland
  • Janusz Garecki Institute of Mathematics and Cosmology Group, University of Szczecin, Poland

Keywords:

action integral, fiber bundle, connection in a principal fiber bundle and its curvature, pull-back of forms, Lie groups and their algebras

Abstract

We show in a new way that the general relativity action (and Lagrangian) in recent Einstein-Palatini formulation is equivalent in four dimensions to the action (and Langrangian) of a gauge field

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2021-08-12

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